Thubr Axebringer closes his eyes and hits himself in the forehead. 'Make 'em remember...'

You have been assigned the task 'Crying for the Dead'.

Thubr wants you to proclaim the ceremony to the dwarves. To do so, you must gather the items to create announcements and then place the announcements around Degmar.

Take a blank scroll from a librarian 0/1 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Take a quill from the lost scribe 0/1 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Take an inkwell from the lost scribe 0/1 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Take drops of blood from the dwarves and combine them in the inkwell 0/10 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Pick up some sticky mud in the library 0/5 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Create announcements. Combine the full inkwell, sticky mud, and quill in the scroll 0/1 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Any "librarian" (undead or live) can drop a "Blank Degmar Scroll".

The "Lost Scribe" is an undead mob found on the upper level of the library's rotunda. It's social with the other undead; is immune to root/snare; and has a lot of hitpoints. It drops "Degmar Inkwell" and "Degmar Quill".

Any Dwarf mob (except, apparently, the librarians) can drop "Degmar Dwarf Blood" if you're on this task.

"Sticky Mud" is a ground spawn on the floor scattered in the library. It is prelootable.

Place a memorial announcement in the throne room and defeat opposition 0/1 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Place a memorial announcement in the armory and defeat opposition 0/1 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Place a memorial announcement in the brewery and defeat opposition 0/1 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Place a memorial announcement in the forge and defeat opposition 0/1 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Place a memorial announcement in the prison and defeat opposition 0/1 (Degmar, the Lost Castle)

Head to the above areas and right-click the announcement. There doesn't appear to be specific location requirements other than being inside the room (other than not having any guards too close), so you can be choosy if you want. Doing so spawns 1x "a _____ guard", a fairly straightforward fight (mezzable; lots of hitpoints; Levels 105-106).

i was doing this quest just now on my 108 necro and i found a spot in the brewery that you can right click on the announcement without clearing anything and without adds. basicly get on top of the barrels in between the two counters with beer at the north wall and make sure you are in the exact middle of the two barrels and you will be able to fight the guard without trouble hope this helps someone who did not enjoy the thought of clearing a whole room

Pretty straight forward mission. For The Lost Scribe, I cleared the three mobs below his room. Respawn is @17min. 30sec. All mobs in his room was too high level to calm, so I just tagged one and pulled it down stairs. It came single. Then I tagged the ones standing near The Lost Scribe and surprisingly, it came down single as well. Cleared @ 3 or 4 mobs near the scribe and then pulled him. Lots of hitpoints, but pretty low DPS. Might be something to do with holding a quill in the primary hand.

Warning: Commander Hobbs has line of sight agro. I chose to spawn "an angry guard" for the throne room at the bottom of the stairs closest to the library as it seemed to be the spot farthest from agroing anything. However, right when I started, Commander Hobbs, who has a perfect view of my spot, came running from way across the room along with 5 or 6 dwarves to splatter my group.

Yes each player has to do it and a mob does spawn each time. BUT... you can clear agro somehow (evac, CoHero, feign death, etc.) and your whole group only has to kill one of the mobs. I do believe they despawn pretty quickly if not engaged.

The Lost Scribe is on the second level of the circular room adjacent to the main library, directly across from where you enter the library. He's up there with 6 potential adds. The room below has 2 undead spawns and a dorf guard who paths up and down the circular staircase. I cleared all these on the first level. The Lost Scribe cannot be snared. I ended up singling him by sending the mage pet and then immediately telling him to regroup. The Lost Scribe "appeared" on the first floor alone, killed my mage but then he was an easy fight. He dropped as many inkwells and quills as those in need. I battle-called my mage just to make sure he was in zone at the end of the fight.

You have to click the announcement inside the 5 rooms indicated. The announcement doesn't get consumed so have your tank do all the clicking since the summoned mob attacks immediately. Each room has a spot just clear enough from adds that you don't have to clear any of the "trash." The only exception for me was the forge where we got one add. This is the most crowded room. I found a sorta clear spot along the wall directly across from where you enter but a confused artisan did meander by and agro.

HOTFIX NOTES: Nov 24, 2014- Crying for the Dead - You can now get task credit for creating the Full Degmar Inkwell by hailing Thubr Axebringer in Degmar if you have the full inkwell in your possession or you have already created the Memorial Announcements. The final hail of the task will also give you credit for the Full Degmar Inkwell step even if you have already completed all the other steps of the quest.

Test server patch on 12/2 rolled out a permanent fix -- a fix which should go live with the 12/9 game update.

As of the November 19th Patch(That was supposed to be ever so awesome, and is ever so Not awesome) .......This quest is bugged.

Everything in the quest will update EXCEPT the step where it says to "Take 10 drops of blood and combine them inside the inkwell"

You will however,be able to continue the quest after combining the 10 drops of blood to create a "Full Inkwell", create the mercenary assignment, and spawn the 5 guards in 5 locations of Degmar. Sadly though, you will not be able to complete the quest due to missing the combine blood portion.

Do not attempt to redo the quest, as it is internally bugged. (We tried, twice)

I can only assume that when SoE decided to remove the quill and inkwell from your inventory after making the full inkwell, they forgot to code in the step update.

-- While we are on Degmar Castle bugs....fix the pathing and wall warping mobs appearing on extended target windows for no reason whatsoever.

-- OH.... and stop with the "no zone" tags on items, when your cant even fix your own memory leaks, and players risk crashing while inside Degmars.

Killed dwarfs in the brewery for the blood then started clicks. Outraged Guard has 7million hit points & will update upon death everyone in group on the defat opposition step. So only one person needs to click the Memorial ceremony announcement to spawn one. Task completes upon Hail to Thubr.